Bronchiectasis in pediatric patients resulting from aspirated grass inflorescences
D. L. Dudgeon, F. B. Parker Jr, G. Frittelli and D. D. Rabuzzi
A grass inflorescence (flowering head) aspirated by a child is difficult to
diagnose, and frequently cannot be retrieved by bronchoscopy. Of four
pediatric patients with aspirated grass inflorescences, two had severe
hemoptysis and the other two were septic at the time of diagnosis. Their
chronic debilitation and bronchiectasis necessitated an eventual pulmonary
resection, with full recovery in all four patients.
